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News: Claudio Vargas to AAA, Carp in Slump

by Matthew Cerrone on April 28th, 2008 at 7:35 am

According to Adam Rubin in the Daily News, Mets RHP Claudio Vargas is expected to join Triple-A New Orleans today.

Vargas had spent the last week or so working out in extended spring training in St. Lucie.

Also, Rubin returns with his outstanding minor-league report, at his blog for the Daily News, during which he recaps who is hot and who is not in the team’s farm system, while speaking with B’Mets 1B Mike Carp, who says: “This year I wanted to prove to the Mets last year was a fluke.”

In 24 games in Double-A, Carp is hitting .376 with six HR, seven doubles and 20 RBI, though he has only one hit (a home run) in his last 16 at bats.